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The Holy Bible Teaches Globe Earth.
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<blockquote data-quote="Speedwell" data-source="post: 73615230" data-attributes="member: 387171"><p>The problem is, the Bible doesn't actually teach a spherical Earth. For one thing, the Hebrew underlying "circle" in that passage from Isaiah conveys no implication of sphericity whatsoever. It means "circle." It also means "compass" in the sense best conveyed in the context of the Isaiah passage by the old-fashioned English word "encompass."</p><p></p><p>But even if the word did also mean sphere one could not say that the Bible "taught" the sphericity of the Earth. You might deduce that it did by looking at the text in a certain light and making some other assumptions. That is to say, you might at most conclude that the Isaiah passage <em>implied </em>a spherical Earth, but you could not genuinely assert that the Bible <em>taught</em> it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Speedwell, post: 73615230, member: 387171"] The problem is, the Bible doesn't actually teach a spherical Earth. For one thing, the Hebrew underlying "circle" in that passage from Isaiah conveys no implication of sphericity whatsoever. It means "circle." It also means "compass" in the sense best conveyed in the context of the Isaiah passage by the old-fashioned English word "encompass." But even if the word did also mean sphere one could not say that the Bible "taught" the sphericity of the Earth. You might deduce that it did by looking at the text in a certain light and making some other assumptions. That is to say, you might at most conclude that the Isaiah passage [I]implied [/I]a spherical Earth, but you could not genuinely assert that the Bible [I]taught[/I] it. [/QUOTE]
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